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Found 21 items.

  • 't-apsitahamal - s/he thinks little of h/; s/he thinks of h/ as small, treats h/ as child (e.g., son who is now grown up)
  • kisi-nicanke - s/he is able to have children
  • koti-nicaniw - (mother-to-be) she is expecting baby; (mother or father) s/he wants to have child
  • ksiyaqsu - s/he loves children; s/he is fond (of someone)
  • milcuwe - she has children by various men
  • miyascuwe - she starts bearing children at young age
  • mocahantuwi-wasis, mochantuwi-wasis - devilish child, mischievous child
  • motehsan - youngest child in family (also used as term of endearment for any child)
  • nicaniw - (person) s/he has child or children, is parent
  • nicanol - h/ child (h/ son or daughter)
  • olcuwe - she has that many children, has children that often
  • piluwi-nicanke - she has child(ren) with man of different race or ethnic group, etc.
  • piyehtehsin - s/he is no longer the youngest (or only) child
  • 'samcuwe - she bears too many children, bears children too close together
  • sawecuwe - she bears children often
  • siwacimis - child who pesters or who drives one crazy
  • unicaniniyal - s/he has a child with h/
  • was - (archaic, except as term of address) child
  • wasis - child, baby
  • wasisuwiw - s/he is young, is a child
  • wasisuwomtu - s/he behaves like child, is childish